Re: [PATCHv10 man-pages 5/5] execveat.2: initial man page for execveat(2)

[Al Viro]

On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 06:12:48PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:

> I'm not sure where you're disagreeing with me. open of procfs symlinks
> does not resolve the symlink and open the resulting pathname. They are
> "magic symlinks" which are bound to the inode of the open file. I
> don't see why this action, which is already special for magic
> symlinks, can't check a flag on the magic symlink and possibly close
> the corresponding file descriptor as part of its action.

_What_ action?  ->follow_link()?  As in "the same thing that e.g.
stat(2) would trigger"?
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